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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
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Hardcover
from Palgrave Macmillan (November 6, 2013)
9781137288646 | details & prices | 204 pages | 5.43 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $100.00
About: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
About: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.